Which (as a pearle) disdaine does weare?”
Shakspere (“Richard III.”):
“The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform’d to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten-times-double gain of happiness.”
In Lee’s “Mithridates” we have:
“’Twould raise your pity, but to see the tears
Force through her snowy lids their melting course,
To lodge themselves on her red murmuring lips